Quotes About Immediate

Our immediate temptation will be to ask for specific solutions to specific problems, and for the ability to help other people as we have already thought they should be helped. In that case, we are asking God to do it our way.

Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.

Yesterday is ashes; tomorrow wood. Only today does the fire burn brightly.

Act-act in the living Present!

The present is an eternal now.

And if not now, when?

When shall we live if not now?

I am no technophobe. I like being able to calibrate communication, depending on the situation - texting for the simple and immediate; email for business or when I want to put some lag time into the exchange; Twitter to promote something; Facebook to draw a crowd.

It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.

Most perfect self-understanding is the capability to directly (immediately) transcend dilemma, all problems, all seeking.

With social media, you have this new kind of way to communicate with people that's very immediate, sometimes alarmingly so, sometimes painfully so. If you could just hold some objectivity, a very direct, unfiltered, raw reflection of the way something is landing in the culture without any spin, or filtration, or anything, it's very raw.

Modern man is too impatient and wants to master the art of meditation immediately.

When life attains a crisis, man's focus narrows. […] The world becomes a stage of immediate concern, swept free of illusion.

Knott-Sloman was looking displeased. He had not liked Starling's breaking into his anecdote, nor the perfunctory nod with which the little don acknowledged their introduction. Nigel was conscious of an immediate antipathy between the two— the antipathy, perhaps, between the conversationalist, who lives by give-and-take, and the man who must have monologue or nothing.

I don't think that TV on the Radio is some dark mysterious band that no one can know about. We write music because it's an immediate form of communication. We're able to put on record what's happening in our times, and we want that message to be heard by the most amount of people.

Food security is a global problem, with real and immediate effects on national security.

I feel upsettingly denatured. If Penélope Cruz were one of my nurses, I wouldn't even notice. In the war against Thanatos, if we must term it a war, the immediate loss of Eros is a huge initial sacrifice.

would be "carried out fairly and fully and forthwith.

I told you before, it gets to be an addiction. You want to be OK right now, so you trade that for having a good life in the long run. It's a bad trade, but people do it all the time. That's all addiction really is. It's trading away the future so you can feel OK right now. That's what your mom is doing. And that's what got me. There's really quite a lot of it going around.

On 'Adam Ruins Everything' we do the broadest sketch comedy possible. We do stuff where you can see it immediately and know it's a joke - characters in big silly costumes; here's Uncle Sam and he's twiddling his fingers saying, 'Oh, I'm naughty.'

We now have the right to have immediate, unfettered access to any site in Iraq and we have the right to interview people, both inside and outside Iraq.

There's a lot of pressure on a film set that's more immediate than the pressure in the theater where you're nervous about what's going to happen next week.

She regretted the explanation immediately, but that was because she always regretted everything

The immediate influence of behavior is always more effective than that of words.